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if you spoke to lestat or louis about your pain, they would say, "your pain? what about MY pain?" but if you spoke about your pain to armand he would say "let me lobotomize you and you will never feel pain again." he has a solution-based mindset and we could all learn from him.
i dont mean to victim blame but why do these vampires keep talking to daniel molloy when they know he's daniel molloy
sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"
It seems like people are automatically assuming that ghost Claudia is 100% telling the truth in regards to her feelings towards Lestat and Louis rather than saying things she knows will hurt Louis out of rage at being stuck in purgatory while he reads her diary entries to her rapist and gets back together with his ex who abused her. Ghost Claudia is clearly in so much pain over her death and separation from Madeleine and is lashing out in the only way she can.
I really don’t think the seance is retconning the Louclaudia relationship into her always having preferred Lestat. I think it makes it clear that Claudia was more easily able to manipulate Louis than he was aware of, or wanted to be aware of. But I also think the ambiguity and the fine line between love and hate remains.
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Obsessed with these tags, you are so right bestie
reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now
Campaign for iwtv fans to put spolier warnings on their posts for BOTH the books and the tv show. thank you.
People who think sheep are killed for their wool are so hilarious to me. Does your barber slit your throat whenever you get a haircut?? Are you a returning customer to Sweeney Todd? Lmao it grows back, fools.
This is completely ignoring the fact that the sheep's soul is stored in its wool. So sure, the body remains, but the spirit, the essence of the sheep, that's gone forever, and then as the wool regrows a new soul moves in.
Same for me, I get a new soul with every haircut. That's why my personality changes so much.
Tumblr citizenship means being completely unsure if the person posting about sheep souls is being 100% serious or is just taking the piss.
THEY TAKE THEIR PISS TOO?!?!?
Yup, stockpiling it in giant buckets to pour on the poor
ngl i was genuinely expecting something like this
louis smiling and confirming to regina that hes gay is so funny to me.... no no i didnt want SEX oh god, you mustve thought i was so creepy haha. Noooo omg i want you to act like my dead vampire daughter who was also a stand in for my humam sister who died believing me to be a monster. which i am.
i've been told there's a repost of this silly old comic going around so here's the real one
opinion on tvl ep6 "dialogue controversy"
i've been seeing posts criticising "montreal" using "slave" in the dialogue when claudia finally confronts louis, actually mirroring a scene from s1 when she and he are trapped in a 'house arrest' state following lestat's domestic terror. please y'all, what about exercising some cinematic critical thinking and diving into the possible whys (*since we know that both jacob and delainey were involved in scripting!!*)
slave means that somebody is entirely robbed of their agency, legally owned by others and is forced to work without freedom or fair pay. it is a substantial ingredient of colonisation. the word is drenched in discrimination, racism and oppression the black community had to endure. that's why it's important to lean a little back into the era in question and look at the reasons why could the use be relevant in claudia's context.
going back to s1, many people miss out on the fact that human louis was a bloody dirty-handed opportunist, willing and forced to micro-conform white standards, which kept him, as a Black person, utterly discriminated and hopelessly trapped, but it also served a further personal step towards satisfying his sense of ambition and status. both aspects are a survival strategy for him and his family, the price to upkeep their lifestyle. that is the meaning of moral ambiguity, of morally grey characters. he's severely traumatized, like all his contemporaries, but eventually commits to bury his hurt to gain an entrance into the slum's underworld which is controlled by, once again, white criminals. we see later that once he's turned, he's absolutely ruthless toward any whites discriminating him or questioning his competence or worth (go lou get 'em!). he's instantly refusing to conform any more. but beware, this doesn't mean, he'll be oblivious to the discriminational trauma he experienced as a human, as white vampires are not cured of racism the minute they get turned. the human power dynamic is still very much there, hence the absolutely brilliant subtext of the abuse louis and claudia endured in s1.
as a human, louis wasn't a just man, he was, once again, a figure of new orleans underworld. to elevate and preserve his status within that hierarchy, he had an iron hold on his quarter, pimping black women and exploiting black men and black families in his gambling facilities. various historical researches focus on how white america forced the black population to basically conserve their own systemic oppression by making them dependent on an economic framework designed to serve colonial/oppressor interest. this is a base principle of colonial rule: to lure or force ambitious collaborators under its influence by promising money, position or the illusion of a 'different treatment'. this is exactly what happened in louis's case. it's not louis's fault, nor the fault of many other black men. the system was created such so only those could flourish with greater chance of success who collaborated with the oppressors. it is a widely-applied tactic to divide the oppressed, as recognized by postcolonial studies.
louis viewed himself as an 'independent businessman', not a collaborator, consciously and unconsciously trying to construst a sense of agency for himself, when, in fact, he had none.
when claudia uses the word "slave", she's speaking from the perspective of someone who had been exploited by louis's business the same way louis was exploited by white businesses. the lynching leading to her turning was inflicted by whites in order to punish louis's defiance. louis had psychical immunity due to his vampiric nature by then, but claudia and her family did not.
that's how her misery started.
from a historical perspective, claudia calling louis's a slave refers to the phenomenon described above. in claudia's eyes, louis was, in fact, a slave to white people as long as she saw him conforming them, may they be humans or vampires. in tvl's ep6 we see claudia completely demolishing the idyllic father-daughter picture we were presented with before. claudia knows what will hurt louis the most and explicitly reminding him of his 'collaborator era', however forced was that, is a card she's not gonna let go to waste.
it is a reminder of her beginning, of how she came to be, how she caught up with a death that, in truth, just had been postponed by four decades. she plainly and simply forces louis to face his own role in her misery and to acknowledge the immense responsibility he had in her tragedy, an aspect he had tried to redirect to all others during the past interview.
Let me know your thoughts.
opinion on tvl ep6 "dialogue controversy"
i've been seeing posts criticising "montreal" using "slave" in the dialogue when claudia finally confronts louis, actually mirroring a scene from s1 when she and he are trapped in a 'house arrest' state following lestat's domestic terror. please y'all, what about exercising some cinematic critical thinking and diving into the possible whys (*since we know that both jacob and delainey were involved in scripting!!*)
slave means that somebody is entirely robbed of their agency, legally owned by others and is forced to work without freedom or fair pay. it is a substantial ingredient of colonisation. the word is drenched in discrimination, racism and oppression the black community had to endure. that's why it's important to lean a little back into the era in question and look at the reasons why could the use be relevant in claudia's context.
going back to s1, many people miss out on the fact that human louis was a bloody dirty-handed opportunist, willing and forced to micro-conform white standards, which kept him, as a Black person, utterly discriminated and hopelessly trapped, but it also served a further personal step towards satisfying his sense of ambition and status. both aspects are a survival strategy for him and his family, the price to upkeep their lifestyle. that is the meaning of moral ambiguity, of morally grey characters. he's severely traumatized, like all his contemporaries, but eventually commits to bury his hurt to gain an entrance into the slum's underworld which is controlled by, once again, white criminals. we see later that once he's turned, he's absolutely ruthless toward any whites discriminating him or questioning his competence or worth (go lou get 'em!). he's instantly refusing to conform any more. but beware, this doesn't mean, he'll be oblivious to the discriminational trauma he experienced as a human, as white vampires are not cured of racism the minute they get turned. the human power dynamic is still very much there, hence the absolutely brilliant subtext of the abuse louis and claudia endured in s1.
as a human, louis wasn't a just man, he was, once again, a figure of new orleans underworld. to elevate and preserve his status within that hierarchy, he had an iron hold on his quarter, pimping black women and exploiting black men and black families in his gambling facilities. various historical researches focus on how white america forced the black population to basically conserve their own systemic oppression by making them dependent on an economic framework designed to serve colonial/oppressor interest. this is a base principle of colonial rule: to lure or force ambitious collaborators under its influence by promising money, position or the illusion of a 'different treatment'. this is exactly what happened in louis's case. it's not louis's fault, nor the fault of many other black men. the system was created such so only those could flourish with greater chance of success who collaborated with the oppressors. it is a widely-applied tactic to divide the oppressed, as recognized by postcolonial studies.
louis viewed himself as an 'independent businessman', not a collaborator, consciously and unconsciously trying to construst a sense of agency for himself, when, in fact, he had none.
when claudia uses the word "slave", she's speaking from the perspective of someone who had been exploited by louis's business the same way louis was exploited by white businesses. the lynching leading to her turning was inflicted by whites in order to punish louis's defiance. louis had psychical immunity due to his vampiric nature by then, but claudia and her family did not.
that's how her misery started.
from a historical perspective, claudia calling louis's a slave refers to the phenomenon described above. in claudia's eyes, louis was, in fact, a slave to white people as long as she saw him conforming them, may they be humans or vampires. in tvl's ep6 we see claudia completely demolishing the idyllic father-daughter picture we were presented with before. claudia knows what will hurt louis the most and explicitly reminding him of his 'collaborator era', however forced was that, is a card she's not gonna let go to waste.
it is a reminder of her beginning, of how she came to be, how she caught up with a death that, in truth, just had been postponed by four decades. she plainly and simply forces louis to face his own role in her misery and to acknowledge the immense responsibility he had in her tragedy, an aspect he had tried to redirect to all others during the past interview.
Let me know your thoughts.
love the fandom but these two extremes have me pulling out my hair sometimes
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